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Free Belarus Now!

International Director Irina Bogdanova in conversation with Richard Demarco and Zara Coombes.

The DALI Band

The DALI are a four piece music band from Belarus.

DALI have a wide following in Belarus, Russia and the Ukraine as well as increasingly in the west. Victór Rudenka toured the UK in 2008 as well as appearing on MTV’s Unplugged. The band’s musical style has been described as, “A hurricane of hard electronic riffs and touching lyrics filled with urban romanticism.”

Review of RJ Thomson’s play ‘Singapore’ by artist Ingrid Christie

Generally shying away from productions involving audience participation I entered Rupert Thomson’s play with a little trepidation.  Any anxieties, in fact all anxieties were magically dispelled as I was taken on what could be described as a  philosophical and mutually constructed journey. The play ‘Singapore’ begins with a volunteer from the audience taking centre stage [...]

BAC Scratch: Josie Long

Josie Long is a stand up comedian whose main show at the fringe is about politics and anger. In her Scratch performance she wants to work on something that’s the opposite of that… Probably involving making some kind of papier mâché puppets.

BAC Scratch: Atomkraft

Greg McLaren has been exploring the ‘Nuclear Issue’. What’s that then? The terror of accident? The mystery of the process? The deep and global energy corruption? And how does that relate to a man boiling his hand?

Book Ends

Savin-O’Hara Productions repesents Book Ends, a new one act play about loving books a little too much… A tale of two book lovers who meet while browsing for romance and passion in a local bookshop. Book Ends  is a play for anyone who has ever read voraciously between the lines or fallen madly in love [...]

LOLfest

Summerhall’s only stand-up comedy event for 2011, LOLfest is raising money for Shelter Scotland and features performances from award-winning comedians Josie Long, Daniel Kitson, and Robin Ince, as well as music from ballboy. twitter:  @lolfest www.shelter.org.uk/lolfest         This event is now sold out.

BAC Scratch: Kate Tempest

Kate Tempest is a poet, rapper and playwright from South East London who will be scratching new work in response to the atmospheric space of Summerhall’s Anatomy Lecture Theatre.

Bernard Rudden: Ars Animalis

A sunlit summer room. Light streams on glass cases as the removers in overalls tape the head, neck and torso of a a horse skeleton.

These Silences preview from The Scotsman

Preview: These Silences By Stuart Kelly Published in The Scotsman: 11/8/2011 Stuart Kelly wanders away from Charlotte Square to look at a new writing event that could prove to be the ‘fringe’ the Book Festival has always been missing It is often said that the greatest testament to the success of the Edinburgh International Festival is [...]

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